China under-reported coronavirus cases by half, leaked documents reveal


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China under-reported its coronavirus cases and deaths during the early stages of the pandemic, leaked documents reveal, giving a glimpse of the scale of the issue (file image) The documents, comprising 117 pages, were handed to CNN by a whistleblower inside the Hubei Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which was at the epicentre of the outbreak. Beijing has long been accused of under-reporting its coronavirus numbers, but the data gives the first glimpse at the scope of the problem. The documents also reveal for the first time that Hubei was in the midst of a major flu epidemic...